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neir says:

All that needed was a ‘You’re not my real father!’ line.

Kaisos says:

And the show finally gets what’s coming to it for dropping all the important (angsty) internal monologues that would have explained WHY Ryuuji is willing to do this for Taiga, and WHY he raged at his mother so much.

Oh, and how he was attracted to Taiga from the very beginning.

YAAAAAAAAAAAY

Dude.... says:

His desire to protect his mother and her unwillingness to have him sacrifice has always been a theme and was the reason for the fight. Come on people, really? No one picked up on any of this?

Sterling01 says:

Who the fuck is this?
http://blog.seiha.org/images2/toradora24/toradora24_22.jpg

Kaisos says:

She’ll be back again next episode. I think.

Charlo says:

Is there a reason why the pacing of the show increased 100 fold? I know it’s reaching towards the end, but this is a pivotal point of the entire series.

I’m assuming the anime production company decided to completely edit out any important monologues/scenes/whatevers that justifies the mind blowing amount of development that occured in a 5 minute span? And cover it up with pretty animation?

jeffng9 says:

well when a parent and son fight its always for the good of her son or another way. Both have no wrong i guess… The mother wants her son to have a bright future and etc while the son on the other hand is man who cares about everything and wants to help out everyway he could. While they are arguing its just a slip of tongue from ryuuji to say the wrong words i guess.

I’m still hoping that ryuuji and taiga would be living together with Yasuko.

Peanutbutter003 says:

That’s what you get for compressing stuff…

MikeW says:

The production company didn’t have access to the last novel (only an outline of the basic flow of events), so the writer would’ve indeed missed out on specific scene details and internal monologues.

lolwut says:

>Ah yes. He hates his mother and fears college.

Ardoc, you obviously don’t even understand Japanese, and just mouthing off… as usual.

He hates his mother?
Yeah, that’s why he told Taiga how Yasuko would have lived a better life if he wasn’t born as her burden.

Did you miss that entire dialog, or you just don’t understand Japanese, yet like to talk out of your ass? lol.

Nellie says:

*Gives Aroduc ego points* I don’t always agree with your opinion, but it hardly matters since you almost always make me laugh.

Looks like the people in Animesuki think you’re an attention whore, lol.

I really wish they had more time to build up these final episodes. Everything that happened went so damn fast and it was a bit jarring.

Ryutai says:

Am I the only person who believes that Taiga and Ryuuji’s behaviours are NORMAL? It’s absolutely normal they can have irrational behaviours like these…they are just kids! I don’t understand your problems with this episode. People can have insane thoughts, to take sudden decisions, being incoherent…
Or are you always perfect, rational and logical people, in every moment of your life? There are “normal” people who SUDDENLY can also to kill. This is THE LIFE. Everyone sometimes do crazy and unpredictable things.
They are TEENAGERS, who have just confessed to each other their feelings, and quarreled with their mothers…They are totally confused and under pressure, so what’s wrong in this? Do you want a dynamic character, who, as a real person, can mistake, or a rigid character who never changes own attitude? YEAH, also clever people can behave in a stupid way. I often mistake or say stupid things, because I’m human. Taiga and Ryuuji are human, very YOUNG, and very stressed because of their families…So, why are you expecting that they are ALWAYS CALM, RATIONAL AND COHERENT? You can hate this couple or this story, but if you say that their behaviours don’t make sense, you are simply forgetting what means to be *human* and not a robot.

Ryugan Koji says:

sorry but i agree whit ardouc im going to explain it in my best english possible

come on lets be something real here they build a marriage relationship in half episode, i know that thats anime and something like that the problemas are going to resolve in the next chapter and so, the problem here its that, the reaction of taiga and ryujii is normal? i dont know everyone is diferent buuuuuuuut

lets face it all of the rest of the characters all like that? i was specting something from ami like “arent you rushing the things?” or something like that, nope nothing like that only a kick, in my humble opinion i see that taiga and ryuji doesnt have real friends, because the friends try to help you that you can see the things and help in your problems and try to calm you when you are upset, but doesnt go along whit all the crazy ideas that you had in the moment.

but well this is a good example that a good history and plot goes wrong

Bloody says:

ok.. I’m confused and… wtf happened to Toradora?? o.O

I thought this was going to have a different end, and a realistic one, but… ok… Ryuuji and Taiga are engaged.. WTF??? They were just friends and in one episode, just one, they’re engaged? That’s stupid and strange…

Toradora had a good or great start and now is dying in the end … what a disappointment. -.-‘

Anonymous says:

I bet most of you are the kind of people who think that Gundam is angsty and deep or who idolize Yagami Lights GF in Death Note because she wears black and hurts people, OR the kind of people who believe Evangelion is the greatest achievement in human history. Actually, I know exactly who you are: you’re the people who thought that Ryuuji would end up with Minorin/Ami? I don’t really see what you’re complaining about, unlike 95% of all anime released nowadays the plot stayed on track, it developed nicely and where you would expect had you known the ending and captured the problems individual characters had with each other and their environments. This is probably the best anime to come out, well, in years. Obviously its just my opinion but I read through most of the comments and couldn’t stop laughing at your reasoning.

TL;DR You guys are fags.

IAN says:

Kudos to the first accurate review of this episode I’ve read. Not to mention, representing my sentiments exactly.

A huge WTF from me to this whole episode .

I feel I’ve been duped and the fans sold down the river to a corny ending when we had been sold on so much more.

Zimmer says:

It just comes too suddenly.

Ganon says:

http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2009/03/20/toradora-24/

I believe the linked site I present is quite a straight forward slaughter of your article Aroduc. It gives great reason and insight to everything that you so blindly and easily missed. The episode wasn’t to fast… it was more of a “I have no other choice so this is all I feel I can do, LETS GET MARRIED! AND RUN AWAY” kinda approach. Which is fully human and reasonable. In regards to that and the posted link… it gives the episode flawless reasoning and appraisal. The episode was a great one indeed, for those of us that gave enough attention throughout the series and this episode.

Toradora FAIL says:

3 Words…
WTF?

Epic Fail End?
*sigh i really liked this series too

oo and Aroduc ftw!

Ganon says:

awww poor Aruduc, because he gets proven that his talk about how he knows more about directing the anime then the producers do is all BS, and that anyone who payed any ammount of attention to the series and anime would know this he tries to use sarcasm to play it all off. “O how the mighty have fallen.” Of course there is another saying more appropriare in regards to you Aruduc “Ignorance is bliss.” Of course that can be followed by “arrogance is unforgivable.” Eitherway, your a let down. Your unwitty sarcasm would be better placed in a topic about the Simpsons then here.

Ganon says:

Aren’t you pleased that you can modify my post and then underline your modifications to make it appear as if I failed to type correctly. :) You never cease to amaze me. On a side note the few pieces you did not modify but underlined in an attempt to make me look the part of the fool were quite amusing in themselves. “O how the mighty have fallen” Is to be spelled with “O” and not “Oh” in regards to some texts, and it being the nature of a quote, this is how it is to be used. “Payed” is in fact an english word. Look it up sometime. You may be suprised you are not as all knowing as you believe yourself to be. The rest are your modifications, abritrarily added by you. Best of luck in your future reviews, perhaps then you will not prove to be the disapointment you have here, unless you once again attempt to inflate your ego. ;)

Ganon says:

My arguements are fine. If you can show where my ‘arguements’ are mistaken or misleading then by all means do. :) *Sigh…* My only typoes there are ‘disappointment’ and ‘arbitrarily’. The remaining underline pieces are quite correct. The occassional typo is of no grave offense, however, underlining correct text to inflate your ego because you believe no one will argue it is quite sad. When you review the last two episodes of the remainder of ‘Toradora‘ pay more attention before writing your article. This can be said to all your other articles as well since they generally take a similar form shown in the above review.